Duster and method of making same



Patented Sept. 19, 1933 DUSTER AND METHOD F MAKING SAME Ralph Yutts, Miami, Fla.

Original application July 2, 1931, Serial No. 548,412. Patent No. 1,836,102. Divided and this application 0ctober29, 1931. Serial No.

2 Claims.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in dusters and method of making same, and is a division of co-pending application filed on July 2, 1931 by Ralph Yutts,

5 Serial Number 548,412, which has matured into Patent No. 1,836,102.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a novel method in the manufacture A of paper or fabric clusters especially designed for use in barber shops, beauty parlors and similar establishments for brushing or dusting the necks and faces of persons and being extremely inexpensive to produce, may be discarded after a single service operation.

A further object of the invention is to provide a brush or duster especially designed for use in barber shops wherein the brush or duster is formed of an elongated strip of paper K foldable in the direction of the longitudinal axis thereof to provide superposed plies with corresponding edges of the plies slitted to provide bristles while the opposite unslitted edges are bunched into form for attachment to a handle. With the above and other objects in view that will become apparent as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists of the novel method for expeditiously producing the duster and the duster per se.

In the drawing:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing an elongated strip of material folded in the direction of the longitudinal axis thereof to provide superposed plies for forming the brush or duster A element;

" Figure 2 is a perspective view similar to Figure 1, showing corresponding longitudinal edges of the superposed plies slit inwardly to provide bristles or wisps; y Figure 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure l; and

Figure 4 is a side elevational view of the slit plies bunched into brush or duster head formation and so retained by a cord associated with the unslit edges of the plies;

A While the present invention may be used in any art where brushes or clusters are employed, the same is primarilyintended for use in barber shops and beauty parlors as a duster for removing hair from the face and neck of a person following the cutting of the hair, the object being to discard the duster element after use thereof upon one patron. The duster element may be constructed of any suitable mav, terial, it being preferable to use paper of either the plain or crinkled type, the duster being formed of any elongated strip of paper that is foldable in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the strip to provide superposed plies 15 as shown in Figures 1 to 3. Corresponding edges ofthe plies 15 as shown in Figures 2 and 12 00 are slit inwardly as at ,16 to provide bres, wisps or bristles 17. The 'unslit ,ledges 18 are then crimped or folded in any preferred manner to provide a stock 19Y and are so retained by a` tying cord 20 or other fastening means, the 65 brush of duster head as shown in Figure 4 being then ready for attachment to a handle. The slitting of the edges of the superposed plies may be accomplished after the strip has been folded to provide the superposed plies, or said strip before folding may be slit upon one longitudinal edge thereof. K a

The particularmethod employed consists of folding the elongated strip in the direction of length thereof, insteadvof on the line of the S75, longitudinal axis, as by the longitudinal folding, v it is possible to obtain any number of plies desired with each ply having a longitudinal edge free of folds and ready for slitting to produce so the bristles or Wisps. The ends of the folded 1 strip as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 are illustrated asconned Within an end fold, but theY strip may be otherwise folded with the ends exposed, the novel method, as stated, residing in the elongated strip being folded in the direction of the length or longitudinal axis thereof to provide the superposed plies. There is no nesting or telescoping arrangement, each ply being independent except for the end connections with other plies, the longitudinal edges of thevplies being entirely separated, the slitted edges forming the duster and the opposite unslitted edges constituting a ystock for attachment to a handle or a handle shank. The material of the duster y may be fibre or paper, either plain, pleated or crepe or crinkled, and the slitted plies are moved into duster formation in any preferred manner, as by folding, bunching, crimping, pressing or pleating.

I claimz- 1. The method of making a duster comprising the taking of an elongated strip of material and folding the same on a plurality-of spaced transverse lines in the direction of the longi- 105 tudinal axis of the strip to form superposed plies with the longitudinal edges of theplies unconnected from each other, slitting corresponding side edges of the plies to provide bristles and moving the other unslit unconnected ',110

ft2 edges of the plies into form for attachment to a handle.

2. The method of making a duster comprising the taking of an elongated strip of material and 5 folding the same by movements in the lengthwise direction thereof to form superposed plies being freeof folds and unconnected at opposite 

